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Space

Fake alien message sent to Earth to prepare us for first contact

A coded message has been sent from a spacecraft orbiting Mars to simulate potential communication from an advanced alien civilisation

News

Why sending messages to extraterrestrials is controversial

Space

Why sending messages to extraterrestrials is controversial

Comment

Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

Physics

Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

Features

Life

The hunt for the South Island kōkako, New Zealand’s long-lost bird

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Life

Why the origins of life remain a mystery – and how we will crack it

Features

Life

Was DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin really a victim of scientific theft?

Analysis

Long spined sea urchins underwater on seabed of the Caribbean sea

Life

Surprising culprit found that killed 95% of a sea urchin population

News

Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) grows in a thick, underwater forest near the Channel Islands in California. This area is part of a National Park and is teeming with thousands of marine species.

Life

Kelp forests capture nearly 5 million tonnes of CO2 annually

News

Space

What are the prospects for life on the icy moons Europa and Enceladus?

News

Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

Life

Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures

Shrimp-like amphipods may be the architects of lines of holes at the bottom of the Bering Sea, which serve as a habitat to a wide range of fauna roaming the abyss

News

Life

How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints

Comment

Earth

Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

News

Physics

Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and causality inside out

Features

Humans

See the top shots in the Woman Science Photographer of the Year award

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